According to Santelli, the media, “whether press, TV or
whatever it is,” aren’t focusing enough on presenting hard data. “I don’t care
how many people visit a website. I want to know how many people, you know, have
lost, how many people have gained, the intersection, how many people have paid,
you know, kind of an analytical, quantitative approach.”

Santelli argued that this was due to the media accepting
data from third party sources as settled science. “Seven million, it’s settled.
Climate change, it’s settled. It’s all settled.”

He also expressed doubt about whether or not anyone was even
capable of doing anything about climate change. “When we can’t get three
intelligent people on this stock exchange to explain how HFT [high frequency
trading] really plays out, what chance do we have to tackle things like Mother
Nature? Where’s the hubris in any of this?”

Santelli is has a reputation for speaking out on CNBC. A
Feb. 19, 2009, rant by Santelli against a potential bailout is widely credited
with inspiring the start of the Tea Party. This rant is commonly called, “the
rant heard round the world.”

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